KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK - H.C. GAMBLE

GAMBLE

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 4/29/2005 at 17:10:30

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, October 1, 1908

Captain H.C. GAMBLE, of Humeston, a Civil War Veteran, was killed in a
recent railway collision in Colorado on Burlington train No. 6. The
circumstances attending his death are deeply affecting. A telegram from
Puyallup, Washington announcing the death of his son, ELMER GAMBLE, was
received and he left immediately for the west and during a heavy snow storm
in Colorado, a freight train flag man failed to see the approaching
passenger train No. 6 in time to prevent a collision which resulted in the
death of several passengers, Captain GAMBLE among them, and the injury of
many others.

Many readers of the Patriot who knew the deceased veteran will read of his
tragic death with profound regret.
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